What Do the Simple Folks Do;>?

[mdehners]

This song from 'Camelot' came to mind after my brother left from one of his AT LEAST bimonthly trips to our house to fix one or more of our devices. Now, I'm no "Luddite" and I fix 80% of what comes up but he's required for that last 20%. How DO folks who have little to no computer skills AND don't have an obliging friend or relative that's skilled with BOTH soft AND Hardware?
That's why disaster movies where the Power is still on a couple days after "Whatever" happened. Without knowledgeable folks CONSTANTLY working with/on the tech it just locks up and crashes. We don't go a WEEK with something needing rebooting, etc.....
Cheers,
Pat

Comments

[ahmik]

They have to take their devices to an awful little shop, where the tech says, "I'll have to keep it until... ohhhh... next Thursday." And then bears the device into the inner sanctum, the back room.

Skapi

[mdehners]

And more than 50% of the time all that was needed was to reboot the device;>! I learned a new one last week. Unplug both Power and Cable from modem and wait 15-30 min. Appearantly, that's long enough for the cable co's system to realize they've lost a customer and send signals down often fixing many problems. So whenever something goes down I reboot the particular device and if that doesn't fix it I reboot each "upstream" in sequence. If the above at the end of the "stream" doesn't work I contact my brother to look at it when he's in town;>....
Cheers,
Pat

[ahmik]

I hadn't thought of disconnecting for a half hour or so. Will give it a go!

Skapi